While the push for hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records aims to improve efficiency, safety and costs, it may actually be driving higher Medicare costs, according to CNBC.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Because ASC personnel work with commercial payors regularly, and rely on reimbursements for revenue, fostering a positive relationship with these payors is highly beneficial. However, it can be difficult to develop constructive, meaningful interactions.
Health Affairs published an analysis of Massachusetts' newest healthcare reforms, and determined three lessons for policymakers to learn, according to Healthcare Finance News.
Under the Affordable Care Act, colonoscopies are to be provided without a copay or deductible, but differential billing codes make patient cost more complex, according to Medpage Today.
Negotiating a profitable payor contract is half the battle to receiving maximum reimbursement; the other half involves perfecting the revenue cycle at your facility. Andrea Woodell of Regent Surgical Health discusses 10 tips for surgery centers to make sure they…
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Between 2001 and 2008, hospitals across the country increased Medicare billing for emergency room, adding $1 billion to taxpayers, according to The Center for Public Integrity.
At study from the Center for Public Integrity reports electronic health records could potentially lead to Medicare overbilling, according to Health Beat.
Here are three questions to ask when deciding if an ICD-10 financial risk assessment request for proposal is effective, according to Government Health IT.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intends to deny reimbursement for the algorithmic analysis underlying multi-analyte tests, its stands has developers of molecular diagnostics and genetic tests worried, according to Genome Web.
Medicare's nonpayment policy for catheter-associated urinary tract infections is having little financial impact on healthcare systems, according to a recent study.